Solenocentrum maasii Dressler 1998

TYPE Drawing by © Dressler and The Epidendra Orchid Website

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Common Name Maas' Solenocentrum [Original Collector of species current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica in forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with several, basal, elliptic, acuminate, broadly cuneate below into the 43 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 9.2 to 9.6" [23 to 24 cm] long overall, provided with a lower leaflike bract with a distinct petiolate base, above, subfoliar distally sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying greenish, non-resupinate flowers.

"This species is distinctly more slender than Solenocentrum costaricense, the flowers are glabrous, the apex of the spur is inflated, and the petals are narrower with less prominent lateral lobes." Dressler 1998

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bol. Inst. Bot. Univ Guadalajara 5[1-3]:83,f.7.1998 drawing fide;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

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